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As America watched the 2010 NBA Draft Lottery tonight, there were most likely some NBA players watching with severe apprehension.  Devin Harris, Jonny Flynn and others were wondering what would happen to their position should their teams land the coveted number one spot.  Those players are breathing sighs of relief, but there's one player who should be jumping for joy: Gilbert Arenas.  With John Wall on board, finally Gilbert Arenas can realize his ...

The 2010 NBA Draft is sneaking up on us. As we continue to inch closer to the biggest day for NBA teams trying to turn their franchises around, comes a series of the best players in the draft from each position. Now we are on the power forward class. The power forward class this year is deep in some eyes. You have great players in this list like Monroe that can ...

The dream of the NBA lottery is to land the next franchise star that the team can build around, and someday help to hang a championship banner. If not creating a winner, NBA teams also hope that the new blood will be able to infuse energy into their fan base and sell more tickets, jerseys and advertising. So what are the chances that any team has to find that player ...

The anticipation is riveting this time of year in the NBA. You have the playoffs and the NBA Draft Lottery. The teams who have been finished cannot wait to seize the day and find out were there teams will be picking. This year no one is more excited than that of the Washington Wizards front office who creeped in to pull off the No.1 overall pick in ...

There’s a new statistical tool I came across after reading a wonderful post by Ian Levy. It was the player-swap tool over at Queen City Hoops , a Charlotte Bobcats blog that is part of ESPN’s TrueHoop network. I fell in love with it after making different combos. Then at one point, I decided to swap two small star forwards in Danny Granger and LeBron James. First, we’ll start ...

In an attempt to keep hometown hero LeBron James in his home town of Cleveland, the Cavaliers are in talks to make gigantic concessions in order to keep James in the city that he has lived in his entire life. To do this, the Cavs have decided that it would be in their best interest to agree to change their team name if James were to stay with Cavs.  The new name was ...

According to the website dailycaller.com, two Phoenix Suns' fans were pulled from their courtside seats during last Wednesday's Spurs-Suns game in Phoenix due to their pro-Arizona immigration law shirts. The offending shirts were bright orange and read "Viva Los 1070," which is in reference to Arizona's recently passed immigration law, Senate Bill 1070. One of the two fans, a Phoenix-area businessman named Jim Clark, stated the reason he wore the shirt was in response ...

While basketball might not have the quote machines that baseball did in Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra, over the years there have been some pretty inspirational (and funny) men to don an NBA uniform. While players such as Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Michael Jordan all make the list with their interesting quotations, top talent is not necessarily important in order for a player to be able to make a ...

A little over a year ago, current Kentucky basketball Head Coach John Calipari said, “I want to be here. This is where I want to coach, and my name will be tied to every job that’s open, and our fans I think have gotten used to it.” A week later, he was signing one of the richest deals in college basketball coaching history with the Kentucky Wildcats.  There is no ...

Thanks to SLAM Magazine, I learned 7 things about the Atlanta Hawks I didn't know. 7 very interesting things. The Atlanta Hawks had a great season this year, but over free agency, they will probably lose Joe Johnson. When the Hawks work on defense and move the ball on offense, they can beat anybody in the NBA.Begin Slideshow